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Book SynopsisA student's textbook suitable for course adoptionA comprehensive overview of the existing literature on gender, bringing together important and influential essays from widely disparate sources. A valuable collection for scholars and students. ANDREA CORNWALL is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Contributors include: JOSEPHINE BEOKU-BETTS, NIARA SUDARKASA, OBIOMA NNAEMEKA, RUDOLF P. GAUDIO, TIMOTHY BURKE, JANE I. GUYER, MEGAN VAUGHAN, JANET M. BUJRA, IRIS BERGER, BARBARA COOPER, DEBORAH GAITSKELL, STEPHAN E. MEISCHER, BOLANLE AWE, JEAN ALLMAN, SUSAN GEIGER Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana U Press
Trade ReviewTwenty-eight truly fantastic essays covering themes from governance to religion to livelihoods to identity.... - -- Lara Scott * AFRICAN REVIEW OF BOOKS *
Cornwall's Readings in Gender in Africa brings together existing work in a number of key areas so placing the substantial growth of transdisciplinary teaching and research in African gender studies during the last three decades beyond refute. She is to be commended for including the work of leading African scholars alongside that of their European and North American counterparts, thus providing an excellent and long overdue teaching text that works to remedy the overdetermination of African scholarship by Western institutional and intellectual interests. African gender relations emerge as a key arena of social transformation, which has inspired theoretical insights of global import. - -- Amina Mama, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Andrea Cornwall I CONTESTED REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER IN AFRICA II RECONFIGURING IDENTITIES: FEMININITIES & MASCULINITIES III LIVELIHOODS & LIFEWAYS IV TRANSFORMING TRADITIONS: GENDER, RELIGION & CULTURE V GENDER & GOVERNANCE
